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From: Beth MacDonald <>
Subject: obituary: Clyde Keller/Kellar Defiance County
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 15:32:04 -0400


William Clyde Keller
William Clyde Keller, son of Geo. And Etta Keller, was born in
Washington township, Defiance county, Ohio, August 31, 1877 and departed
this life at Detroit, Mich., Aug. 31, 1924, aged 47 years.
On September 23, 1906 he was united in marriage to Miss Nora May
Motter. Mr. Keller has been engaged in the meat market business the
greater part of his life. Clyde was a man who made friends wherever he
went. He leaves a wife, aged father, one sister, two nephews, a niece
and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his departure. His mother
preceded him in death April 15, 1923.
Mr. Keller was a member of the K. Of P. lodge at Hudson, Mich.

Additional Obit
The funeral of Clyde Keller, of Detroit was held at the M.E. church
Wednesday afternoon, conducted y Rev. J.H. Bolton, with interment at Ney
where are buried his little brother Donald who died Nov. 4, 1880, and
his mother, Mrs. Loretta Purtee Keller, who died April 16, 1923. The
pall bearers were Saul Andres, Wm. H. Baker, C.E. Kintner, Wm. A. Mack,
Ora C. Marsh, John W. Pollock. Those present from a distance were his
father, George Keller, and sister, Maud, Mrs. Arthur Doud, Mr. D., their
sons, Raymond and wife, and Rannel, and daughter, Estella, of Pittsford,
Mich., John Keller and wife of Hicksville, Charley Keller and wife of
Sherwood.
Clyde married Nora, daughter of Lewis and Emma Benner Motter, Sept. 23,
1906, about 15 years ago the families going to Pittsford, Clyde soon
going to Hudson, then to Detroit, working at the butcher business as he
did here. His wife has been keeping house for her brother George in
Defiance since his wife died several years ago. On Clyde's 47th
birthday, Aug. 31, a party was held at which some sort of trouble arose
when a man present struck Clyde on the head with a hammer, killing him
instantly. The murderer is in jail awaiting his trial. Clyde's friends
remember him kindly.

Card of Thanks
We desire to thank the friends and neighbors for their kindness and
sympathy, those who furnished machines, those who sent floral offerings
and Rev. J.H. Bolton for his consoling words.
Mrs. Wm. Keller

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